The Iditarod: The Last Great Rac

Mrs. LaDuke's Cartographers

Landform	Definition/Description	Picture
mountain	a very tall high high natural place	Mount McKinley http://homeboyski.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mount-mckinley-in-denali-national-park.jpg
river	a long piece of water that ends in a larger waterway	Yukon River http://www.deltanewsweb.com/archives/images/990828_yukon.jpg
lake	small body of water surrounded by land	Bear Lake http://www.jessstryker.com/national-parks/rocky-mountains/images/BearLake1.jpg
strait	water with land touching two sides	Icy Strait http://www.perkfamily.net/_wizardimages/icy1.jpg
island	a piece of land surrounded by water	Kodiak Island http://www.romancingalaska.com/images/Maps/Kodiak%20Islands%20Map.gif
sea	a large body of salty water often connected to an ocean	Bering Sea http://www.polartrec.com/ptrecgallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24491
glacier	a slowly moving river on ice	Columbia Glacier http://www.gps.caltech.edu/%7Ecarltape/personal/images/alaska/valdez02_web.jpg
bay	a body of water that is partly surrounded by land	Naukati Bay http://image52.webshots.com/52/5/85/14/472358514ocouvI_ph.jpg
gulf	a part of the ocean (or sea) that is party surrounded by land	Gulf Of Alaska
peninsula	a body of land surrounded by water on three sides	Alaska Peninsulas
hill	a raised area of land or a mound	Flagstaff Hill
tundra	a cold treeless area	Barren Tundra http://www.canada-photos.com/data/media/16/polar-bear-tundra_4065.jpg
volcano	an opening in the Earth's crust that shoots out ashes and hard rock	Augustine Volcano
range	a group of mountains
ice burg	a large piece of ice floating in the sea or ocean	Calving Iceburg http://livingromcom.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/iceberg2.jpg
valley	a low place between mountains	Mendenhall Valley
archipelago	a chain or group of islands clustered together	Alexander Archipelago http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/research/alaska/figures/figure4.gif

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